Luongo made 21 of his 46 saves in the first period, defenseman
Mattias Ohlund scored twice, and the Canucks moved into a tie
with Calgary atop the Northwest Division with a 4-1 victory. The
Flames could have clinched the division with a win.

"We wanted to finish it off tonight," said Calgary coach Mike
Keenan. "Luongo obviously thought differently. Luongo was the
difference. We had a number of chances to get involved in the
game offensively and he just stymied us. He was putting on a
goaltending clinic tonight."

Flames captain Jarome Iginla tied the game 1-1 with 5:16 left in
the second period, finally beating Luongo on the 33rd shot. But
Ohlund restored the lead 22 seconds later with a shot off a
Calgary defenseman -- his first goal in 26 games -- and added an
insurance goal on the power play with 5:09 left.

"We'd rather take two points and play bad than the opposite, but
we didn't play great," said Ohlund. "They totally outplayed us
and Louie stole the game."

Rick Rypien opened the scoring late in the first period, and
Henrik Sedin ended it with 2:32 left as the Canucks snapped a
three-game skid to pull even with a Flames team they trailed by
13 points on January 31. Vancouver went 20-5-1 through February
and March to pass Calgary, which was battling injuries, but fell
behind again after going 0-2-1 in the first three games of
April.

Miikka Kiprusoff made 21 saves for the Flames, who moved ahead
of Vancouver with a win over Los Angeles on Monday. Calgary
still controls its destiny because it has two more wins than the
Canucks, the first tiebreaker in the standings. So Vancouver
needs at least one more point than Calgary in the final two
games of the season.

"If we play like that, we'll win a lot of games," said Iginla.

The Canucks host Los Angeles on Thursday before ending the
season in Colorado on Saturday afternoon. The Flames finish with
a home-and-home series against Edmonton on Friday and Saturday.

The timing of Calgary's final games could become significant
because it fell to 2-10-2 in the second half of back-to-back
games with the loss to Vancouver.

Then again, despite arriving early in the morning after a 4-1
home win over the Kings, it was the Flames who controlled things
early, outshooting the Canucks, 17-3, through the first 10
minutes of the opening period. Luongo kept it scoreless with
point-blanks stops on Mike Cammalleri and Todd Bertuzzi in the
opening minute, and robbed Dion Phaneuf and Olli Jokinen on an
early power play.

"Once I make those saves early I get in a comfort zone and they
kept throwing pucks at the net from everywhere and for me
personally that's the kind of game I like," said Luongo, who had
given up 13 goals in the previous three games.

Luongo made several more highlight-reel stops, none bigger than
on Iginla's blast from the slot as the Canucks killed off a
66-second 5-on-3 advantage for the Flames. He got a break when
Cammalleri missed an open net on the rebound, and again when
Jokinen hit the post and batted that rebound over a wide-open
net on another power play midway through the period. Calgary was
blanked on six power plays and is now 0-for-37 with the man
advantage in the last eight games.

"Our power play needs to take a lot of blame and, also, Luongo
was very good," said Iginla. "We threw a lot at him. They
weren't just bad shots. We had a lot of good shots and,
unfortunately, we didn't get more by him."

Kiprusoff wasn't nearly as busy, but was no less spectacular
early on. He slid across to rob Willie Mitchell on a 2-on-1
redirection, and waited out Sedin to got his left toe on a shot
from alone at the crease.

Rypien finally beat him off the rush with 2:39 left in the first
period, firing a second chance over the shoulder of Kiprusoff.
It was his first goal since scoring in the first two games of
the season -- both against Calgary -- before missing 70 games
due to sports hernia surgery and a personal leave of absence.

"It's been a long time," Rypien said. "Maybe just lucky it's all
against Calgary."

Iginla, who shot wide on a third-period breakaway, finally
solved Luongo after Jokinen's shot from the slot trickled to him
at the side of the net with the goalie flat on his stomach. But
Ohlund scored on the next shift.